For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Obsess about the quality of the product.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

One should not have to live in the dark.

She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.